Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

450 gr flour
5 gr baking soda
7 gr ginger
4 gr cinnamon
1 gr cardamom
110 gr sweet butter
150 gr sugar
1 egg
180 ml molasses
1 gr salt
10 gr orange rind
1/4 on floured surface

Instructions

racks to cool. Note: Dough will keep up to one week, refrigerated. Cookies can be stored up to 3 weeks in cookie tins. Variation: Decorate cookies with raisins, colored sugar, silver dots, etc. before cooking. Or ice them after they have cooled. Yield: 3.5 dozen. Amanda Cushman, freelance recipe developer and food writer, New York, NY Randy Shearer